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		<title>Ai Yori Aoshi</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Aug 2007 21:33:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jessica</dc:creator>
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This anime is about a very sweet romance story where the stage begins smack dab right in the middle of Tokyo. It&#8217;s an anime about how a growing love can overcome many and all of the obstacles that can be thought of in this very modern time. This anime reflects reality yet at the same [...]]]></description>
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<p>This anime is about a very sweet romance story where the stage begins smack dab right in the middle of Tokyo. It&#8217;s an anime about how a growing love can overcome many and all of the obstacles that can be thought of in this very modern time. This anime reflects reality yet at the same time, it&#8217;s truly an unrealistic anime. Why? Well then, you&#8217;ll just have to let me continue.</p>
<p style="text-align: center"><img src="http://jess.tub-r.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/08/aya_house.jpg" alt="Ai Yori Aoshi Leading Characters" /></p>
<p>The main and leading male character here is named Hanabishi Kaoru who comes from the well-known and rich Hanabishi family line. However, being a family member of the rich and famous isn&#8217;t what it&#8217;s all cracked up to be. And due to reasons of his own, Kaoru decides to cut family ties with the Hanabishi family and live on his own.</p>
<p>One day, the leading female character, Sakuraba Aoi, a girl who is a descendant of the famous and well-known Sakuraba family in Japan decided to pay him a visit. Her status when meeting Kaoru was as a fiancee as in the plot, they mentioned that they were, since young, engaged to be married. However, when Kaoru left the Hanabishi family line, the engagement was canceled. However, this cancellation does not cover the fact that Aoi is truly in love with &#8220;Kaoru-sama&#8221; and wanted very much to be his wife.</p>
<p>Alone, Aoi travels through Tokyo holding only onto her little purse and a piece of paper where Kaoru&#8217;s address was written on for she wanted to meet him. As she was changing trains in the subway, unfamiliar with the Tokyo scene, she became confused as to how to get pass the ticket machine to get to the trains. At this time, a young man around her age decides to help her seeing as that she looked lost trying to get around. Coincidentally, this young man turns out to be Kaoru himself. They only recognized each other after Aoi procures a picture of their young selves.</p>
<p style="text-align: center"><img src="http://jess.tub-r.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/08/young.jpg" alt="Young Kaoru and Aoi" /></p>
<p>After not having seen each other for years, Aoi decides that she wanted to start over again. She wants to be able to live  with Kaoru, to get to know him better, to begin a new relationship built on love and not of family arrangements.</p>
<p>However, with Aoi connected with a rich and famous family, it seems that their relationship would be a easy one as their relationship was denied by the Sakuraba family. Will their love conquer all their problems? Are they able to stand against all the odds to beat the outside force that was interfering with their bond? How would their relationship survive?</p>
<p>Sakuraba Aoi, the main female character, was described as a perfect girl in the way she expressed her love and care. Hanabishi Kaoru, the main male character, is only an ordinary                      man at the beginning. Nothing special about his character. But later in the series, we will see that he really deserve a perfect girl like Aoi.</p>
<p>This anime is also another sweet one. It&#8217;s not very like my style of anime but it&#8217;s really nice, the plot, where at the beginning sees that the plot revolves around the both of them, suddenly becoming where they lived in a mansion with many other female characters being added into the scene making the mansion to be very harem-like where Kaoru is the only male in the house.</p>
<p style="text-align: center"><img src="http://jess.tub-r.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/08/ai2.jpg" alt="Ai Yori Aoshi Leading Characters" /></p>
<p>So you can only imagine what kind of anime this would be like. Imagine that you, a guy, is live with 5 beautiful women under one roof where out f the five, four is in love with you! If I were that guy, I&#8217;d be in heaven, but I&#8217;m not, and the fact remains that I am 100% female <img src='http://jess.tub-r.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_biggrin.gif' alt=':D' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p>I really liked this anime because as the plot unfolds, not only were there tears and sorrow, there was also tons of hilarity and partying going on and that&#8217;s what makes this a overall sweet, romantic anime.</p>
<p><big><u><strong>Rating</strong></u></big> : 8/10</p>
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		<title>Air TV</title>
		<link>http://jess.tub-r.com/2007/08/05/air-tv/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Aug 2007 01:35:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jessica</dc:creator>
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Air TV is a Japanese anime. In this 12 episode anime, it talks about a guy named Yukito Kunisaki who is on a journey in search of the winged girl who flies in the sky that his mother told him about when he was just a kid. Searching for this winged girl led him to [...]]]></description>
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<p>Air TV is a Japanese anime. In this 12 episode anime, it talks about a guy named Yukito Kunisaki who is on a journey in search of the winged girl who flies in the sky that his mother told him about when he was just a kid. Searching for this winged girl led him to small town where all the people you see are little kids, pretty adolescent girls and some pretty ladies. Overall population, 6 kids, 4 pretty girls, and 3 pretty ladies.</p>
<p style="text-align: center"><img src="http://jess.tub-r.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/08/air_cover_art_book.JPG" alt="Kano, Misuzu, Minagi" /></p>
<p style="text-align: center"> Kano, Misuzu, Minagi</p>
<p>So anyways, at the beginning of the anime, you can see that he&#8217;s just a poor traveler whose got no money to even buy food for himself or a place to stay, thus he tries to attract some attention from the limited population of the town to watch his puppet show and to earn some money. But too bad, no one was interested in his puppeteering tricks and leaves.</p>
<p>Eventually, after starving for over a day, he meets a strange and clumsy girl named Misuzu. Here Misuzu tries very hard to make friends with the reluctant Yukito by following him around all day trying to convince him to play with her during her summer break and in the end of the day, Yukito decides to stay in the small town by living in Misuzu&#8217;s house to continue searching for the mysterious winged girl his mother had searched for all her life.</p>
<p>That&#8217;s basically the gist of all of episode one, however, I shall not continue spoiling the anime for you. But this anime is a touching anime bound to make you tear at the storyline. I admit, I cried a few while watching this anime as well&#8230;why? Because it&#8217;s a very sweet and touching anime.</p>
<p>If you get the chance, you really should watch this anime <img src='http://jess.tub-r.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p><big><u><strong>Rating</strong></u></big> : 6.5/10</p>
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		<title>Ghost Tunnel</title>
		<link>http://jess.tub-r.com/2007/06/23/ghost-tunnel/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Jun 2007 11:59:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jessica</dc:creator>
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In Japanese with English and Chinese Subtitles
Genre: Horror
Director: Takeshi Furusawa
Cast: Erika Sawajiri, Chinatsu Wakatsuki, Shun Oguri, Aya Sugimoto
RunTime: 1 hr 33 mins
Rating: PG
Synopsis:
High school student Nana is the sole caregiver of her younger sister, Noriko while their mother is in the hospital. Nana&#8217;s world suddenly turns upside down when Noriko mysteriously     [...]]]></description>
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<p><strong>In Japanese with English and Chinese Subtitles<br />
Genre:</strong> Horror<br />
<strong>Director:</strong> Takeshi Furusawa<br />
<strong>Cast:</strong> Erika Sawajiri, Chinatsu Wakatsuki, Shun Oguri, Aya Sugimoto<br />
<strong>RunTime:</strong> 1 hr 33 mins<br />
<strong>Rating:</strong> PG</p>
<p><strong>Synopsis:<br />
</strong>High school student Nana is the sole caregiver of her younger sister, Noriko while their mother is in the hospital. Nana&#8217;s world suddenly turns upside down when Noriko mysteriously                      disappears. The only clues Noriko has left are the train pass that she has picked up from the station a day before her disappearance and the dark shadow seen following the young girl on the surveillance footage from the station.</p>
<p><strong>Movie Review</strong>:<br />
Are you the kind of people who always tend to sit on the last LRT/KTM/etc (anything to do with trains) home? Are you afraid of the dark? Are you afraid of things that go &#8220;Give~it~back~&#8221;? Or are you the kind who goes around picking up stuffs around you that you think isn&#8217;t trash?</p>
<p>If you&#8217;re all of the above, I don&#8217;t suggest you to watch this movie because, like all the Japanese made movies, this movie revolves (The Japanese have a knack of scaring us with stuff we usually corporate into our lives daily, such as toilets, closets and so on) around trains, or to put it into perspective, underground trains.</p>
<p>This show begins when a young boy happened to pick up a train pass and became cursed by the owner and was told to &#8220;Give~it~back!!&#8221; and will die and so on and so forth.</p>
<p>Basically, not to destroy the plot. I&#8217;ll just talk about what I like or didn&#8217;t like about it. Before that, let me just entertain you with a few on screen clips that was in the movie.</p>
<p style="text-align: center"><img src="http://jess.tub-r.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/06/g1.jpg" alt="Erika Sawajiri" /></p>
<p style="text-align: center"><img src="http://jess.tub-r.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/06/g2.jpg" alt="Nana and Noriko" /></p>
<p>So what did I like or don&#8217;t like about it? I like that the ghosts actually <strong>DID</strong> kill some people, I like the part where the ghosts seem really ghastly, I like the part where the director made you wait in suspense and nothing happens at one point and then &#8220;<strong>BOO</strong>&#8221; in an expectedly expected moment, I like the part where they made it so that the scariest moment is when it&#8217;s the <strong>VERY LAST TRAIN</strong> of the day!! Love the fact that it now teaches people <strong>NEVER</strong> to pick up <strong>ANYTHING</strong>!!</p>
<p>What I didn&#8217;t like was that of all the people who died, she (not gonna tell you who <strong>SHE</strong> is bwahahahaha) didn&#8217;t <strong>REALLY</strong> die o_O!!! I didn&#8217;t like the fact that it&#8217;s very anticlimactic at the very end of the story. I didn&#8217;t like the fact that it involves trains (afraid to commute in the dead of the night now.), I didn&#8217;t like the special effects at the end of the show (They probably rushed it at the end =/).</p>
<p>All in all, not a bad movie. I&#8217;d give it a <strong>7/10</strong> for a rating.</p>
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